Welcome to my website

I am really proud to have represented the people of Newcastle in Parliament for the last fourteen years. When I was elected in 2001, I was the first MP here for well over a century actually to have been born and bred in our town. Since then, I have tried my best to help with the issues that matter to you, be it national policy, local projects or individual concerns.

I hope this website gives a flavour of that work, as well as being a useful guide to our local community. If you have any comments, or any issues you want to raise, please just get in touch – and likewise if you want your local group, project or event highlighted here.

Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly today joined Tia Copsey, her father Tim and other parents and children outside Parliament to lobby the government to fund a drug that is proven to help people suffering from the rare genetic disorder, Morquio Syndrome.

There is much to welcome in today's Budget statement, but also much to worry about. Newcastle's MP gives his initial reaction to the measures outlined by the Chancellor, George Osborne, in the House of Commons earlier today.

A 200-acre area of open countryside at Bignall End has been dropped from Staffordshire’s minerals plan – to the joy of villagers and Newcastle’s MP Paul Farrelly who fought a concerted campaign to safeguard it from coal mining.

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